Selected Course to Understand the Demands of Qur'an
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Whenever you want to pursue the truth and verify anything you hear about Islam, we urge you to please use the only valid and divine source of Islam, Qur'an.
On the authority of Jundub ibn Abdullah
(may Allah [The Most High] be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of
Allah [The Most High] said:
There was amongst those before you a man
who had a wound. He was in [such] anguish that he took a knife and made with it
a cut in his hand, and the blood did not cease to flow till he died. Allah the Almighty said:
My servant
has himself forestalled Me; I have forbidden him Paradise.
On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah
[The Most High] be pleased with him) from the Prophet , who said:
A prayer performed by someone who has
not recited the Essence of the Quran(1) during it is deficient (and
he repeated the word three times), incomplete. Someone said to Abu Hurayrah:
[Even though] we are behind the imam?(2) He said: Recite it to
yourself, for I have heard the Prophet (may the blessings and peace of Allah
[The Most High] be up on him) say:
Allah (mighty and sublime be
He), had said: I have divided prayer
between Myself and My servant into two halves, and My servant shall have what
he has asked for.
When the servant says: Al-hamdu lillahi rabbil-alamin(3), Allah (mighty and sublime be He) says: My servant has praised Me.
And
when he says: Ar-rahmani r-rahim(4), Allah [The Most High] (mighty and sublime
be He) says: My servant has extolled Me,
and when he says: Maliki yawmi d-din(5),
Allah [The Most High] says: My servant has glorified Me - and on one occasion
He said: My servant has submitted to My power.
And when he says: Iyyaka na budu
wa iyyaka nasta in(6), He says: This is between Me and My servant, and My
servant shall have what he has asked for.
And when he says: Ihdina s-sirata l-
mustaqim, siratal ladhina an amta alayhim ghayril-maghdubi alayhim wa la
d-dallin(7), He says: This is for My servant, and My servant shall have what he
has asked for.
(1) Surat al-Fatihah, the first surah
(chapter) of the Qur'an.
(2) i.e. standing behind the imam
(leader) listening to him reciting al-Fatihah.
(3) "Praise be to Allah, Lord of
the Worlds."
(4) "The Merciful, the
Compassionate".
(5) "Master of the Day of
Judgement".
(6) "It is You we worship and it
is You we ask for help".
(7) "Guide us to the straight
path, the path of those upon whom You have bestowed favors, not of those
against whom You are angry, nor of those who are astray".
It was related by Muslim (also by
Malik, at-Tirmidhi, Abu-Dawud, an-Nasa'i and Ibn Majah).
On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah
[The Most High] be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah [The
Most High] said: Allah (glorified and exalted be He) said:
I am so self-sufficient that I am in no need of having an
associate. Thus he who does an action for someone else's sake as well as Mine
will have that action renounced by Me to him whom he associated with Me.
